The Battle of Bothwell Bridge on 22 June 1679 was the decisive engagement of the 1679 Covenanting Rising. The Duke of Monmouth commanded a government army of 10,000 against a Covenanting force of perhaps 6,000 divided by theological disputes. The Covenanters held the bridge briefly before being overwhelmed. About 400 were killed in the battle, 1,200 captured and imprisoned in Greyfriars churchyard Edinburgh in brutal conditions.
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